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...Congress debated eight hours before approving your space station earlier this month. But many remain unconvinced that the benefits of the project match its price tag. Why does the U.S. need...
...that can't be quantified. The discovery factor can't be downplayed; the fact that we'll be in space looking at areas of science that could lead to cures for disease can't be ignored. It's there, but you can't put a dollars-and-cents price tag on that. It's like trying to weigh the cost and benefits of going to the moon...
...LEGION OF DOOM, who have quit the outlaw game to start Comsec Data Security. The Legionnaires claimed an 80% success rate in penetrating computer networks, and now they want to teach private industry to protect itself from the next generation of intruders. "You can't put a price tag on the information we know," says Scott Chasin, a Comsec partner. But they...
There is little doubt, however, that the price tag is going up. While the Bush Administration has earmarked $130 billion for the bailout, Bowsher said the RTC will require at least $150 billion as depressed real estate markets slash the value of RTC holdings. When interest charges are included, the final cost of the cleanup could approach $500 billion over the next 40 years...
...same token, some representatives of the world's largest minority, the humor-impaired, regard the women's response to an oil-tank trucker with whom + they keep playing fender tag as excessive. Every time they encounter him, the guy proves by word, smirk and obscene gesture that he's a chauvinist dinosaur. When he inquires if they're "ready to get serious," they reply encouragingly. What he doesn't know, of course, is that they're thinking metaphorically, with a little help from director Scott, with whose surrealistic reinvention of the West -- one-third desert, one-third industrial wasteland...